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Steven Plaut is a professor at the University of Haifa. He can be contacted at steven_plaut@yahoo.com
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By Steven Plaut
In true Judaism, it is none of the business of Jews to fix or repair humanity, it is the job of Jews to repair the Jews - a not inconsiderable task - NOT to repair the world.
By Steven Plaut
The option is binary: You are School A or School B. What School are you?
By Steven Plaut
This year, as usual, demagogue politicians are joining the calls for yet another state commission of inquiry into the hysteria of "kidnapped Yemenite children"
By Steven Plaut
Bar-Ilan tenured professor Menachem Klein is one of the leading Bash-Israel academics who has a special passion for the idea of dividing Jerusalem and removing Israel from its sacred shrines.
By Steven Plaut
Modern Israel has developed into an economic miracle, as a result of economic liberalization, driven by entrepreneurship, innovation, investment, and the accumulation of human capital.
By Steven Plaut
In short, Michael Lerner is neither Orthodox nor a Rabbi. We DO know that he is an anti-Semite though, one who claims that Jews themselves are to blame for anti-Semitism!
By Steven Plaut
At the Israeli Left's own rallies, one sees scores of Stalinist red flags, a plethora of PLO flags, and even the occasional Hamas flag-- but no Israeli flags.
By Steven Plaut
Zehava, the Belgians were nice, even turned over much of Brussels to Islamists. Look what that got them
By Steven Plaut
Mister Belgian Prime Minister, Blessed is the peacemaker. For capitulating to the terrorists you will be awarded a Nobel Peace Prize--I should know.
By Steven Plaut
Professor Butler is a leader in the attempt to impose a WORLD boycott against Israeli universities.
By Steven Plaut
When an Arab terrorist enters the editorial offices of Haaretz, sing Kumbaya in 4 part harmony.
By Steven Plaut
Challenging Leftist theology will get you indicted before the Left's Inquisition, its captive media.
By Steven Plaut
Leftwing NGOs funded by NIF, Soros and the Left have virtually zero support in Israel.
By Steven Plaut
Nawi's rap sheet includes convictions for pedophilia & rape of a minor boy and attacking police
By Steven Plaut
An accurately sad and satiric portrait of the "hollowed" halls of academia in Israel.
By Steven Plaut
The Israeli Left's new crusade for freedom of speech demands Zionist student group Im Tirtzu SHUT UP
By Steven Plaut
Lerner invented the "politics of meaning," a pagan New Age pseudo-religion that hates Judaism/Israel
By Steven Plaut
Lerner invented the "politics of meaning," a pagan New Age pseudo-religion that hates Judaism/Israel
By Steven Plaut
Comrades, it's time we define micro-treasons & begin to take serious action against them.
By Steven Plaut
The only way to solve the problem of ISIS activism in Paris is to cede French land to the Islamists.
By Steven Plaut
Rare opportunity presents for righting wrongs & achieving social justice: Send Refugees to Iceland!
By Steven Plaut
Will Ahava (love) be allowed to enter the cauldron of Europe? You might need to "schmear" the guards
By Steven Plaut
Ronen Shamir's just the latest tenured Leftist convicted of sexual misconduct with his own student
By Steven Plaut
It is time to acknowledge Alaric I and his descendents, as the true & rightful rulers of the Vatican
By Steven Plaut
"If I were a Shaheed, yababa-deidledie, all day long I'd detonate for fun, if I were a Shaheed guy"
By Steven Plaut
British archeologists just uncovered a statement from 1938 supporting BDS of Czechoslovakia (humor)
By Steven Plaut
Israel's media waged jihad against Bibi before the election, nakedly promoting Herzog and Labor
By Steven Plaut
No matter what rick or contrivance the Left tried, it didn't help. And tried they did!
By Steven Plaut
'- When income becomes too equitable, there are no incentives to work hard and take risks and innovate.
By Steven Plaut
The Israel Prize, the nation's premier prize, is awarded in a range of areas for various disciplines
By Steven Plaut
The "brand new" Israeli Labor Party has revealed its brand new political platform and brand new agenda and we thought we would sum it all up for you. Here are the planks of the Labor Party Platform: Appeasement is the highest form of resistance and vehemence. Cowardice is the highest form of bravery. Treason is […]
By Steven Plaut
Why does Israeli health services refuse to finance species reassignment surgery as well?
By Steven Plaut
Proposals for France to achieve a full, lasting, and just peace with their historic opponents
By Steven Plaut
The iconic image is baby Shani in the arms of a policewoman frantically searching for Shani's mother
By Steven Plaut
"Oppressed people unfortunately often are forced into use of violence."
By Steven Plaut
"Mr. Prime Minister, declare a unilateral ceasefire! Remember, Blessed is the peacemaker!"
By Steven Plaut
Israelis now know Arab terrorism isn't caused by Israeli occupation but by ending Israeli occupation
By Steven Plaut
The Mid-East conflict is a unidirectional campaign of Arabs murdering Jews, not the inverse.
By Steven Plaut
Judah concedes he was wrong&feels regret; THAT is precisely what qualifies his house for leadership
By Steven Plaut
What is the appropriate Israeli response when European countries recognize the "State of Palestine"?
By Steven Plaut
Those celebrating violence with "No Justice No Peace" signs are opposed to both justice and peace.
By Steven Plaut
The bill is the initiative of Knesset Member Eitan Cabel from what is left of the Israeli Labor Party.
By Steven Plaut
The ostensible basis for the banning of Israel Hayom is that it is distributed for free.
By Steven Plaut
Israel's weenie gov't refuses to pass law requiring instant execution of ALL terrorists at the scene
By Steven Plaut
Conspiracism is a form of paranoid delusion taking over the entire lives&personalities of believers
By Steven Plaut
The Israeli left, led by tenured academics, endorses pretty much anything harmful to its own country
By Steven Plaut
Though secular, Hitman's CV includes writing music for, recording, and popularizing religious songs.
By Steven Plaut
Emigration from Israel is at an all-time low, far lower than immigration to Israel from Europe.
By Steven Plaut
Israel offered Syria the entire Golan Heights, only to find that the Syrians were demanding MORE!
By Steven Plaut
Why is "Palestine" worthier of "statehood recognition" than ISIS, another terrorist gang seeking it?
By Steven Plaut
The Palestinian terrorists could undergo career reorientation and take to cod fishing.
By Steven Plaut
Israel's imperious court is comprised of judges who do not live in African-filled neighborhoods.
By Steven Plaut
"Jewish Voices for Peace," a Hamas lobby created by Jewish anti-Semites.
By Steven Plaut
The real enemy of Israel is not Arab fascism but Jewish leftism.
By Steven Plaut
Neo-Nazis claim that Isis leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is in fact a Mossad agent named Elliot Shimon
By Steven Plaut
One grey night it happened, Bibi caved no more & Poof that Foggy Bottomer, he vanished from our sight
By Steven Plaut
It's six K, five K, four K, Graft ! (Daylight come and da jail's his new home)
By Steven Plaut
In 2012, an initiative was begun in the Knesset led by David Rotem (from the Yisrael Beitenu party), to cut the stipends and pensions paid to convicted murderers and terrorists by 50 percent.
By Steven Plaut
When the Temple was in existence, Jews were religiously obligated to eat roast meat at least once a year.
By Steven Plaut
I have frequently drawn up lists of what I love most about Israel, and Arik Einstein has ranked high.
By Steven Plaut
In the past, the law school prohibited the singing of Hatikvah.
By Steven Plaut
American non-Orthodox Jews are intermarrying their way into post-Jewish oblivion, and they’re doing so as a direct result of having emptied their version of Judaism of all meaning.
By Steven Plaut
The Taliban is all too willing to obliterate anything attesting to ancient Jewish life and culture.
By Steven Plaut
It began as just another exercise in political academic wackiness at Hebrew University. A graduate student there claimed that the absence of any history of rapes of Arab women by Israeli soldiers proves that Jews are racists and oppressors, people who do not even regard Arab women as sexually desirable. The student at the Mount Scopus campus and her “research” were then awarded a university honor for these impressive “discoveries.”
By Steven Plaut
I favor eliminating the exemption of yeshiva students from military service and, without quibbling about details, I endorse the initiatives designed to end that disgraceful exemption.
By Steven Plaut
American news headlines over the past few weeks have focused on political targeting by the Internal Revenue Service of conservative groups. But Israel is experiencing its own form of political targeting by the state. The attorney general is leading an initiative to have a small group of radical juveniles who engage in mischief declared a terrorist organization.
By Steven Plaut
April 16, 2013 Dear Mr. President, My heartfelt sympathies to you and the American people for the acts of protest carried out in Boston this week during the Boston Marathon. This really is a wake-up call for us all.
By Steven Plaut
The Israeli left, along with most of the world's pseudo-intellectual classes, has suddenly discovered Abraham Lincoln, thanks to Steven Spielberg’s much-praised movie.
By Steven Plaut
Honest Abe used exactly the same blockade tactic against the Confederacy over which the Israeli Left is now sobbing its eyes out.
By Steven Plaut
Quick. Name all the Israeli parties that did not run in the recent election on a platform focusing on lowering the price of housing and the cost of living. After that, name all the Israeli parties who understand what has produced the rapid increase in housing prices and have a plan for coping with them and lowering them.
By Steven Plaut
There is a widespread misconception that the Middle East conflict is complicated. In fact, it is really rather simple. Indeed, one can basically summarize and explain the entire conflict in the context of the words "occupation" or "occupied territories" and people’s beliefs about the effects of such "occupation."
By Steven Plaut
In 1999, Benjamin Netanyahu, in his first go-round as prime minister, lost his reelection bid to Ehud Barak, much to the delight of Israel's conscripted media and of many in its judicial system.
By Steven Plaut
There is a species of radical leftist that believes the main purpose of taxpayer-funded universities is to indoctrinate students in radical left-wing ideology. Such people believe the only legitimate form of scholarly research and teaching is to force upon students the ideas and agendas of the left because only these represent correct thinking.
By Steven Plaut
It is now official. Rachel Corrie, patron saint of the pro-terror radical left and its Islamofascist allies, essentially committed suicide in order to assist Palestinian terrorists. She was not killed in cavalier fashion by Israel. Israel had no particular reason to want her dead (as opposed to deported).
By Steven Plaut
In November 1947, the United Nations was considering the creation of a Jewish state in parts of Western Palestine and a new Arab state in the other parts.
By Steven Plaut
He was having trouble getting up from the platform and into the cattle car. After all, he was only twelve years old and there was no ramp leading inside. An SS thug saw him “dawdling” in front of the car and aimed a boot at the boy’s posterior. The boy jumped out of the way just in time and the SS man fell to his face from the violence of his own kick.
By Steven Plaut
I recently was challenged by an academic who claimed to be dumbfounded that I rejected as absurd his use of the term “Apartheid Wall” to refer to Israel’s security barrier fence.
By Steven Plaut
It was a few days before Passover when I first heard the horrific cackling. “What,” I asked family members, is that? It sounded just like the longtime leftist agitator Shulamit Aloni. But it wasn’t.
By Steven Plaut
And after helping so many groups of people, after absorbing so many sets of refugees, after solving so many of the world's problems, there were no longer any wise leaders to govern the adorable little state. Because it had humanitarian-ized itself into oblivion.
By Steven Plaut
So Hillary Clinton thinks Israel does not treat its women nicely or respectfully enough. This is the same Hillary Clinton who never had much to say about the treatment of women in the Clinton White House.
